The largest companies doing business today understand that they flourish due to the work of globally-minded people.  Managers, new recruits, technologists, region heads, and others up to and including the CEO all need to demonstrate critical competencies and embody the company’s strategy, values, and intellectual capital while generating profits in unfamiliar locations and cultures.  These "talents" operate not only across value systems but also virtually, requiring a level of WorldWise communication sophistication that has now become indispensable for sustainable success. 

Worldwide Talent Management, therefore, has become the new critical success factor for corporations that are extending their reach as well as their grasp.  And this implies, in turn, a robust Global Leadership Development System.  GROVEWELL’s experience in developing global competencies among business leaders has led us to a broad, systemic approach to global talent management.  Its basics are illustrated here:

One of the anchors for Standards and Attributes is a set of widely understood value and mission statements, developed by culturally experienced managers with genuinely worldwide input from employees and other stakeholders. 

Also necessary are global competency models and other foundation tools that serve as the glue for consistent Standards and Attributes, particularly as these apply to employee motivation, behavior, alignment, and on-the-job performance.  These, too, need to be adjusted to local mindsets and values if they are to be wholeheartedly embraced by the rank-and-file in different world regions.  Similarly, methods for assessing leadership, adaptability, and global-mindedness must be shaped and guided by local cultural norms.

In GROVEWELL’s experience, accurate and nuanced determination of local mindsets, values, and norms is at the heart of global sophistication, and is possible only if in-depth interviewing is applied as an alternative or companion to on-line or paper-and-pencil feedback surveys.
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The Building Blocks of Global Leadership Development
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GROVEWELL provides the following services to companies focused on developing, motivating, retaining, aligning, and managing the performance of global talent in a systematic way.

• Leader/Manager Development, by means of training and developmental assignments abroad

 
• Performance Management Systems design , with special attention to upgrading global-mindedness, cultural adaptability, and global job skills

 
• Executive Coaching, using an interculturally astute approach such as GROVEWELL's Coaching for Global Advantage [details]

 
• Targeted Coaching, to realize the full potential of women as well as of others with diverse values, talents, and perspectives

 
• Global Succession Planning, insuring that demonstrated talent, performance, and adaptability are the only paths to top leadership

 
• Virtual Team Performance, facilitating effective collaboration and execution across boundaries, cultures, and distances

 
• Global Infrastructure, referring to a coordinated and aligned set of global management systems-

Global Metrics also provide valuable opportunities for feedback leading to incremental improvements in the Global Leadership Development System.
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The Outcome: High Performing Global Leaders
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The long-term outcomes of effective Global Leadership Development are

• Increased and consistent global goal achievement
• Sustained and productive internal and external global relationships
• A deep, dispersed, multicultural talent pool
• Rising global market share

GROVEWELL offers a wide variety of consulting and training services that are indispensable for effective worldwide talent management, as you will notice from perusing this entire website.  Our globally experienced and interculturally astute senior associates can strengthen all or part of your global talent management effort.
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Additional Information
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GROVEWELL LLC is one of the earliest adopters/appliers of the findings of the 62-nation, 11-year GLOBE research project on the cross-cultural dimensions of leadership.  For more information, click here.
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For additional information regarding GROVEWELL's services related to Worldwide Talent Management, please select from the menu under "Additional Global Leadership Solutions" immediately below.

For additional information regarding GROVEWELL's understanding of and approach to global business solutions, click here.

To obtain specific information, or to inquire about engaging GROVEWELL's services, contact info@grovewell.com.
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